Naturally Nurtured Nature
Naturally Nurtured Nature, 7436 Thomaston Rd, Macon, GA 31220
About
Naturally Nurtured Nature includes all-weather nature immersion time every day, with learning taking place entirely outdoors in all seasons. Children spend time in free, unstructured nature play such as outdoor play, climbing trees, playing in the woods, building shelters, and journeying daily through creeks, meadows, and a hickory/oak forest. Activities also include songs, stories, visual creative arts, tracking animals, listening to birds, and using the five senses to explore the native environment.
• Ages: 3–6 years old
Naturally Nurtured Nature offers homeschooling programs and custom activities in every subject, with a focus on both the arts and sciences and year-round camps. Children build and construct art and sculpture with sticks, acorns, leaves, bark, berries, nuts, and rocks, and they count with products in nature and draw numbers and letters in the dirt. The program includes developing self-care habits such as washing hands and managing belongings, clothes, shoes, and backpacks, and it uses a child-led, inquiry-based approach with unstructured, imaginative play and no stagnant pre-written curriculum. Core elements include all-weather nature immersion time every day, child-led flow learning, child-inspired and child-directed documentation of emergent curriculum, place-based education, small class sizes, and a 1:5 teacher/student ratio. The program states that academics are learned through playing with products in nature and that it integrates lessons of each season. Naturally Nurtured Nature describes its mission as aiming to inspire a love of learning, a love for the earth, and compassion for all living things, and it notes that forest school pedagogy is found in the theory and practice of the Reggio Emilia approach, with an emphasis on child-led learning and nature-based learning.
The program states that children learn in a natural environment with experienced adults who support their self-initiated play and discovery, and that forest kindergartens seek to re-establish a balance of indoor versus outdoor time in childhood. It lists benefits of learning outdoors that include gross motor development, reduced attention deficits, self-regulation, social development, problem solving, STEM learning, resilience and perseverance, stimulated cognitive learning, building self esteem, motivation to learn, and developing executive function. It also notes an emphasis on developing initiative, persistence, creativity, and a capacity for problem-solving as essential to future academic success, and a focus on social-emotional and physical development in a 100% outdoor, natural setting. The program states that educational experiences in outdoor settings encourage natural curiosity and help children gain respect for the natural world, and that unstructured nature play gives children space to create their own experience. Pre-K and Kindergarten registration is described as open.
Naturally Nurtured Nature is open for Scouts, churches, schools, family reunions, and any clubs or groups for campouts, meetings, day trips, and special activities. The listed leadership contact is Dawn, who is reachable at (478) 538-3216.
Last updated April 25, 2026.
• Ages: 3–6 years old
Naturally Nurtured Nature offers homeschooling programs and custom activities in every subject, with a focus on both the arts and sciences and year-round camps. Children build and construct art and sculpture with sticks, acorns, leaves, bark, berries, nuts, and rocks, and they count with products in nature and draw numbers and letters in the dirt. The program includes developing self-care habits such as washing hands and managing belongings, clothes, shoes, and backpacks, and it uses a child-led, inquiry-based approach with unstructured, imaginative play and no stagnant pre-written curriculum. Core elements include all-weather nature immersion time every day, child-led flow learning, child-inspired and child-directed documentation of emergent curriculum, place-based education, small class sizes, and a 1:5 teacher/student ratio. The program states that academics are learned through playing with products in nature and that it integrates lessons of each season. Naturally Nurtured Nature describes its mission as aiming to inspire a love of learning, a love for the earth, and compassion for all living things, and it notes that forest school pedagogy is found in the theory and practice of the Reggio Emilia approach, with an emphasis on child-led learning and nature-based learning.
The program states that children learn in a natural environment with experienced adults who support their self-initiated play and discovery, and that forest kindergartens seek to re-establish a balance of indoor versus outdoor time in childhood. It lists benefits of learning outdoors that include gross motor development, reduced attention deficits, self-regulation, social development, problem solving, STEM learning, resilience and perseverance, stimulated cognitive learning, building self esteem, motivation to learn, and developing executive function. It also notes an emphasis on developing initiative, persistence, creativity, and a capacity for problem-solving as essential to future academic success, and a focus on social-emotional and physical development in a 100% outdoor, natural setting. The program states that educational experiences in outdoor settings encourage natural curiosity and help children gain respect for the natural world, and that unstructured nature play gives children space to create their own experience. Pre-K and Kindergarten registration is described as open.
Naturally Nurtured Nature is open for Scouts, churches, schools, family reunions, and any clubs or groups for campouts, meetings, day trips, and special activities. The listed leadership contact is Dawn, who is reachable at (478) 538-3216.
Last updated April 25, 2026.
Is this your business? There is no cost, but you will be asked to sign up or log in.